Brahmanda Purana — Anushanga Pada, Shloka 12

सगरदिग्विजयः

Sagara’s World-Conquest / Digvijaya

Devanagari script

परापवादभीताश्च स्वदाररतयो ऽनिशम् / निसर्गात्खलसंसर्गविरता धर्मतत्पराः

Transliteration

parāpavādabhītāśca svadāraratayo 'niśam / nisargātkhalasaṃsargaviratā dharmatatparāḥ

Translation

人々は誹謗を恐れて悪口を避け、己の妻に常に貞実であった。生まれつき悪人の交わりを退け、ダルマに専心していた。

Word by Word

• para-apavāda-bhītāḥ: afraid of others' censure
• para-apavāda-bhītāḥ: Viśeṣaṇa (विशेषण) (of implied janāḥ/prajāḥ)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: para (प्रातिपदिक) + apavāda (प्रातिपदिक) + bhīta (कृदन्त; √bhī भी)
• Form: Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Nominative (प्रथमा/1), Plural (बहुवचन); bhīta = past participle (क्त); compound: parāpavāde bhītāḥ (locative-tatpuruṣa)

• ca: and
• ca: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ca (अव्यय)
• Form: Avyaya (अव्यय), conjunction (समुच्चयबोधक)

• sva-dāra-ratayaḥ: attached to their own wives
• sva-dāra-ratayaḥ: Viśeṣaṇa (विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: sva (प्रातिपदिक) + dāra (प्रातिपदिक) + rati (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Nominative (प्रथमा/1), Plural (बहुवचन); compound used adjectivally: svadāreṣu ratayaḥ (locative-tatpuruṣa sense)

• aniśam: constantly
• aniśam: Kriyāviśeṣaṇa (क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: aniśa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Avyaya (अव्यय), adverb (क्रियाविशेषण)

• nisargāt: by nature, from natural disposition
• nisargāt: Apādāna (अपादान)
• Type: Noun
• Root: nisarga (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Ablative (पञ्चमी/5), Singular (एकवचन)

• khala-saṃsarga-viratāḥ: refraining from association with the wicked
• khala-saṃsarga-viratāḥ: Viśeṣaṇa (विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: khala (प्रातिपदिक) + saṃsarga (प्रातिपदिक) + virata (कृदन्त; √ram/√vṛt? विरम्/विरत as kta from √ram with vi-; conventional virata ‘ceased/turned away’)
• Form: Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Nominative (प्रथमा/1), Plural (बहुवचन); virata = past participle (क्त) ‘desisted’; compound: khalasaṃsargāt viratāḥ (ablative-tatpuruṣa sense)

• dharma-tatparāḥ: devoted to dharma
• dharma-tatparāḥ: Viśeṣaṇa (विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: dharma (प्रातिपदिक) + tatpara (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Nominative (प्रथमा/1), Plural (बहुवचन); compound: dharme tatparāḥ (locative-tatpuruṣa)